Since I'm in a baseball and, more important, a Cubs mood I looked up some Will Ferrell as Harry Caray videos. I also found some other good ones! Including this soldier doing Harry Caray at a traffic stop:

Add two mint sprigs, simple syrup, and lime juice to a shaker. Lightly bruise with a muddler. Add gin and fill with ice, shaking vigorously for five seconds. Strain into a martini glass with a sugar rim. Garnish with remaining mint sprig.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Saturday night in Flagler Beach. Woohoo! I had an odd experience last night, wanna hear about it?

A grim looking middle aged lady came stomping up to the bar carrying a bucket of beer and slammed it down in front of me. "Why would you open all the beers in a bucket going out to a table of two?" I wasn't on service bar, but I would have opened them too. I cheerfully replied "Well, we open the beers so you don't have to. We don't really know from here how many people are drinking from the bucket." I really didn't know what to say other than "Would you like a fresh bucket?". She did and I proceeded to grab 4 more beers and began scooping in the ice. As I was doing this, the GM came up to the bar (probably because the server told him there was an issue). I heard her saying something about "I thought it was a health code violation to serve open beers to a table, at least it was when I was working." I handed her a fresh bucket of UNOPENED beers and bid her farewell with a smile. I then said under my breath "I hope you cut your fucking hand opening them, you old hag". I then looked at my boss and said "What the hell?". I learned later that he wasn't finished hearing from her, she was complaining about the bucket sweating all over her table, etc. I pride myself on customer service "saves", but some people are just impossible to please. I only wish she had been drinking beer with pry-off lids, so she would have had to come back up and ask me to help her open them.

So we were talking about it later among ourselves and had a few opinions about the whole ordeal. Was she right? Should we serve the beers unopened? One server said she understood it to be against the law to serve them WITHOUT opening them, because then we are acting as a package store. Interesting point. We wouldn't just hand someone a bottle of wine and say "Emjoy!" I guess the lady's point of argument is that the beers weren't opened in front of her. But, had she ordered a gin & tonic, I wouldn't walk out to the table and pour the drink in front of her.

So I chalk it up to douchebaggery.

Opinions? If you order a bucket of beer, would you prefer the beers to be opened or unopened?

I'm not really on alert, but I thought I would repost the article. Yes 81 people have died in Mexico City. Tragic? Maybe. Do you realize that the population of Mexico City is almost 9 million? Greater Mexico City has around 22 million people, the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere. 22 MILLION!!! .00004% of the population has died from swine flu. That news isn't enough to keep me from leaving my house. I'm no trying to be insensitive here, but if you have 22 million people crammed into a city that is gradually sinking into the soft clay on which it was originially built, it might be time to cull some of the population.

Of course, as my customer NY Jon would say, it might just be the government trying to keep the people in fear....

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Governments around the world rushed on Sunday to check the spread of a new type of swine flu that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico and infected around a dozen in the United States.

Mexicans huddled in their homes while U.S. hospitals tracked patients with flu symptoms and other countries imposed health checks at airports as the World Health Organization warned the virus had the potential to become a pandemic.

The epidemic has snowballed into a monster headache for Mexico, already grappling with a violent drug war and economic slowdown, and has quickly become one of the biggest global health scares in years...

Oh John Dorian, you silly man. One the most often quoted lines behind the bar at the GL.

Appletini"One of several ways to make this 'girlie classic'. Special note, this is MY recipe not the Golden Lion recipe. I can pretty much guarantee you won't get this when you order an appletini there."

3 oz vodka1 oz triple sec1 oz apple Pucker®

Shake with ice until frothy. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a slice of green apple.

I added the new Facebook 1.5 app to my blackberry. It has a cool feature by which I can connect my facebook contacts to my blackberry contacts. So, say I have your number in my phone, it will pull your picture, birthday, etc from your facebook profile. Here's where the problem is...if I have your number, but you don't have it listed on facebook, you will receive a phone number request from me. I am very sorry...i didn't realize this would happen.